ChatGPT does not _understand_ the question, nor does it _understand_ its own answer. ChatGPT tries to detect some kind of pattern, the question fits in and generates an answer, again dpending of patterns. While ChatGPT is astonishingly good at both, patterns tend to have kind of grey areas where information is not exakt or not right. So it is quite easy to make ChatGPT give complete nonsense answers. So both Nietzsche as well as Beethoven are named as Austrian people. Restricting the question to living Austrians is funny enough:
Tell me some famous Austrian people.
Some famous people who are from Austria include:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor and politician)
Sigmund Freud (psychologist)
Gustav Klimt (artist)
Friedrich Nietzsche (philosopher)
Ludwig van Beethoven (composer)
Adolf Hitler (politician)
Josef Hoffmann (architect and designer)
Franz Schubert (composer)
Maria von Trapp (singing family made famous by the movie "The Sound of Music")
Bernd Maierhofer
Living ones!
Sure, here are some famous living Austrians:
Thomas Klestil (former President of Austria)
Gerard Mortier (opera director)
Elfriede Jelinek (Nobel Prize-winning author)
Michael Haneke (film director)
Helmut Marko (Formula 1 racing official)
Andreas Maislinger (founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service)
Wolfgang Puck (chef and restaurateur)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (alpine skier)
Christina Aguilera (singer and actress)
Alain Prost (Formula 1 racing driver)
Thomas Klestil died in 2004. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe definintely is nor was an alpine skier. So here are 5 answers wrong.